
A journey through family history, storytelling, and discovery, exploring my own stories and the stories that continue to capture my imagination.
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There is a thread running through this week’s Chiddicks Observer, and it isn’t really about records at all. It is about everything that exists around them: the silences within families, the memories that were never written down, the photogr...
Every family historian eventually encounters a name that refuses to let go.
This is the story of one such name.
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What shapes the stories we tell about ourselves and the stories that survive after we are gone? This week’s Observer takes us on a fascinating journey through choices that change the course of a life, unexpected paths that lead to new begin...
Sometimes, the smallest details in a record can leave the biggest questions behind.
A single sentence. A name scribbled in the margin. A tiny detail that, at first glance, seems almost insignificant.
Stories Behind the Records is a reader...
Some weeks, the stories we uncover seem to have very little in common. This week is rather different.
From a haunted restaurant in Cape May and the battlefield of Auldearn, to the journeys our ancestors made, the memories preserved by a da...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Family history researcher and Family Tree Magazine columnist. I write the stories behind the records — the people, places and history that connect us all. Creator of The Chiddicks Observer on Substack. Full-time storyteller, part-time Lego builder.
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